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(1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 14% Rotten Page   1   D+ "The Weinstein Company went out of their way to make sure I didn't see a press screening of Hannibal Rising this week. Now I understand why."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf C "There is nothing to be frightened of here."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey ""Memory is a knife," warns Murasaki, who lost family in Hiroshima. "It can hurt you." You can only hope the image of the doglike Hannibal, ripping at a victim's cheeks, fades soon."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "The material knows it is a prequel, and acknowledges such with tactics that consist of taking viewers from beginning to end in the most straightforward way possible..."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 1.5/4 "Each follow-up to The Silence of the Lambs makes further sense of that 1991 film's top five Oscar sweep. Let's hope Rising is the last; it's certainly the least."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "...the film improves substantially once Hannibal embarks on his mission of revenge - with the whole thing morphing into a brutal actioner along the lines of Death Wish and Man on Fire..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "Blemished but undeniably enthralling as dark entertainment, Hannibal Rising is one of the good ones."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/5 "Un intento forzado por seguir explotando el personaje de Hannibal Lecter, vistosamente filmado y producido pero sin otra excusa argumental que intentar explicar lo inexplicable."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio C "Traumatic early-life experiences can only go so far, can only prove so much. Lots of people have horrible childhoods and still manage not to become flesh-eating serial killers."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C- "Hannibal Rising has put Hannibal Lecter in a basic revenge plot that doesn't need a Hannibal Lecter. In the process, it explains away one of cinema's legendary enigmas."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "...a plodding prequel that's more detached than a separated body limb placed neatly on Lecter's dinner plate...a boorish slice of slaughterhouse cinema."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng D "Hard to stomach...this handsomely appointed but turgid, dramatically inert movie simply bites off more than it can successfully chew."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/4 "Critical miscalculations at every turn have taken this latest (and hopefully last) Hannibal movie beyond the realm of camp and into that special hell reserved for only the most rancid of sequels."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/5 "Director Peter Webber clearly wants Hannibal Rising to be a class production. Unfortunately, he makes the whole affair too artsy and staid for its own good, which results in a plodding pace that induces more eyelid drooping than tension."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 0/4 "And now, the prequel Hannibal Rising, which answers several questions: Where did Hannibal come from? What made him what he is?... It does not, however, answer the better question: Who fricking cares?"   Cinematical   James Rocchi 4/10 "Click here to read review"   Kinoblog.com   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 5/10 "Might be enough to give viewers some vicarious thrills, but it's a little disconcerting for me to see Hannibal Lecter becoming less dimensional with each new movie."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 1/4 "The more we learn about the bogeyman, the less terrifying he becomes."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp "You won't need a GPS to know where this plot is headed."   Light Views   John Larsen 3/10 "Viewers deserve more, as does the legacy of the now laughably ridiculous Lecter."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 1/5 "o Webber mazi me ton aytokanibalisti Thomas Harris frontizoyn na makelepsoyn enan ap' toys pio eikonikoys haraktires tis mythologias toy tromoy toy aiona mas, kai na ton ypobibasoyn se enan akomi fonia mias opoiasdipote tyhaias slasher tainias, me proshim"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2.5/4.0 "... serves only to dilute the delicious, mysterious evil that Sir Anthony Hopkins brought to the role... furthers only in adding to the studio's coffers."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2.5/5 "Well, it didn't stink. It wasn't great, either, but neither were Hannibal or Red Dragon, to be honest."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2/4 "Lecter is fascinating because he's an enigma; his deadly allure more appealing because his past is a mystery."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "The scariest thing about Hannibal Rising is that this seems to indicate that there will have to be another movie, in order to explain the explanation of Lecter's evil..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 0/4 "In the past, Hannibal Lecter has both frightened and fascinated me. Now he's just a sad shadow of his former cinematic glory, stuck in an unspeakably awful movie."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "As we get a chance to see him as a child and a young man, our curiosity may be satisfied, but the additional detail that humanizes him makes him far less interesting."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3/5 "Good freak-out fun for genre fans."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "For an absolutely unnecessary movie, Hannibal Rising is handsomely appointed, lushly if unimaginatively directed."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C- "Seeing the character's protean quirks reminds one of Dr. Evil's speech about luge lessons; it's that ridiculous."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 2.5/5 "The guy's about as intimidating as a mildly irritated kitten, and that certainly doesn't up the creep factor."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg D "Not just a bad film, Hannibal Rising is downright dull, which is a far worse crime."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 1.5/5 "As bad as Hannibal Rising is -- and believe me, it's terrible -- this fictional biography of the beloved Dr. Hannibal Lecter could have been worse."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 2/10 "The psychobabble sympathy card doesn't play well here."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 0/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 14% Rotten Page   1